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The company has two patents pendinbg for technology installed in the and it already has customers at what once was theLe Nature’se water-bottling operation off Loop 202 and 48th Wanger, i/o’s president, said more companies are seeking colocation serviceas as they look to house serversw and backup data at off-site facilities to save capitalp costs. Companies can rent rack spacw in a colocation facility to housw servers that need to be connected to multiplebandwidthu providers. This is particularly importantt to businesses that want to ensure their Web sites are up andrunninf 24/7. “Everybody is saving everything,” Wanget said.
“You send a picturre to your grandmother through and the image is here and hereand here.” I/o’sw new center comes at a good time for the which in the past year has seen a boom in colocatioj centers as businesses scrap plans for their own privatew centers, said David Cappuccio, chief of research of infrastructurr for Gartner Inc. “Ibn the last year, when the economy started to tank, (companies) started to ask if they shoulde be spending all the capita moneyup front,” he said. I/o completedd the work on Phoenix One in about six employing an army of many of whom are still workiny on thesecond phase.
The first phas e is finished, but upgrades will continue untilk there isroughly 460,000 squarse feet dedicated to servers. Wanger said they’re about they’ved already completed about half of The process for developing Phoenix One started witha $56 millio investment by Sterling Partners in December whichg helped i/o acquire the building on a 50-year I/o moved its operation from Scottsdale, where it stillk has a 120,000-square-foot data to the Phoenix office. Many of the technologies firsr implementedat i/o’s Scottsdale center are expanded in the new Additions include the ThermoCabinet, a server enclosure that makes use of cool air circulatin under the raised floor.
It allows the air to be drawnm up through theclosed cabinet, enabling more serverx to be stored within. The device allowe the cabinets to store as much as 10 times the equipmen t that would be used in traditional datacented operations, Wanger said. “We’re seeing people pack 5,0000 square feet of data center intotwo cabinets,” he said. The compan y also developed a plug systek that works with equipment fromany It’s an easier way to distributre power and infrastructure than installing specialized equipment, Wanger said. “This is all he said. “People said they wanted access to multiplw brandsof equipment.
” The data center will take advantage of features originally installed in the Le Nature’as factory, including access to an on-site Arizona Public Servicer Co. substation suppling the facility with 42 megavolts of The company plans to triple that once the facilityis complete. It also uses a 7,000-ton chilledf water cooling system thathelpxs i/o reduce its power bill through thermap cooling. The process uses a water-gel combination that is frozenn at night to keep the water cooler duringthe day, Wanger said.
In addition, the company is planninv a 4-megawatt solar systenm for the building’s roof, installed light-emittinv diodes for more efficient lighting, and power-saving equipment and design. The retrofit also will be submittedr for certification as part ofthe U.S. Green Buildinh Council’s Leadership in Energy and EnvironmentalDesighn program, Wanger said. Phoenix once was a boomtowmn fordata centers, but the tech bubbld crashed many of thos e plans in the early part of the In recent years, the Valley has again seen increasedr activity in becoming a data hub.
Cappuccio said Phoenizx has the same things going for it that it did 10years ago: a relatively stable cost of electricity and no naturaol disasters. As colocation continues to push the size of commercial data centersup — even as company-owned data centers are getting smallerr — more companies may look at Phoenix, Cappuccio said. “The colocators are going to continue tolook there,” he “They are going to go where they can get the lowest cost of a buildiny per square foot.
” Mark Bauer, senioe vice president for CB Richard Ellis’ Technology Practice Grou in Phoenix, said the move by i/o into the formetr factory provided a use for the buildinf that didn’t have many other options. “At the time, there wasn’t very many uses that could be done with a buildingt ofthat size, said Bauer, who helped broker the deal on behalf of i/o. Commercial data centers have become increasingly common onthe Valley’zs landscape. More companies are seeing the advantages of storing their data withother companies, Baued said. “Phoenix is always in the top five of a list of wherr people are looking to puttheir data,” he said.
It also puts i/o in a positiobn to take advantage of a growing Bauer said. “They spent money when no one else did, and they’rd delivering product to he said.